Arts, Briefly

Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder

Published: February 12, 2005

Lane and Broderick, Together Again

Nathan Lane, below left, and Matthew Broderick, right, are going to do it again. No, not rejoin ''The Producers,'' but team up, this time in a Broadway revival of the Neil Simon comedy ''The Odd Couple'' scheduled to begin previews on Oct. 4. In the production, directed by Joe Mantello (''Assassins''), Mr. Lane is to play the slovenly sportswriter Oscar Madison and Mr. Broderick his roommate, the fussy photographer Felix Unger. The original Broadway production, which opened in 1965 at the Plymouth Theater, starred Walter Matthau as Oscar and Art Carney as Felix. No theater has been announced.

Lincoln Prizes

Allen C. Guelzo, a professor of history at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, has become the first repeat winner in the 15-year history of the Lincoln Prize for the year's best works on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, traditionally announced on Lincoln's birthday.

For his book ''Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America'' (Simon & Schuster), he is to receive $35,000 and a bronze replica of a Saint-Gaudens bust of Lincoln on April 21 at a dinner in Richmond at the Tredegar Iron Works, the Confederacy's principal cannon factory.

The second prize, $15,000, is to go to Harold Holzer, the senior vice president for external affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for ''Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President'' (Simon & Schuster).